The term isabelline is applied to individual birds that have faded plumage (for example, van Grouw 2006); but, to the best of our knowledge, it is rarely applied to mammals that have diluted pelage, where "partial albino" is often incorrectly used (Jones 1920).

A beggar must be like Job, a guerillaman like Achilles--the very opposite of what characterizes the esperpento of the banana republic of the tyrant Ban deras or the Isabelline court of miracles of El ruedo iberico.

1475)--the comic romance in which Juan de Flores defends the status and power of women in Isabelline Spain-- has generated more scholarly debate than the last, in which the queen of Scotland and her ladies avenge the conviction and suicide of the princess Mirabella by murdering the misogynist defender of men, Torrellas.

The reason to suffer altitude sickness in the Andes to see an Ecuadorian hillstar, trek across the Karoo desert at 45C to glimpse a small grey eremomela, empty my stomach over the side of a small boat with engine failure just to see an isabelline wheatear - it has always been birds.

Two events have contributed to the increasing historical interest in Isabelline Spain: the 1992 commemoration of Columbus's arrival in the New World, and the five-hundredth anniversary of Isabel's death in 2004.

They were demanding either to return to the original form of their profession or to be allowed to adopt the Isabelline Rule, a constitution recently composed by Bonaventure and other friars for the sister of the King of France.

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